Conner v. Stanley

Citations

• 65 Cal. 183
• 3 P. 668
• 1884 Cal. LEXIS 486

Syllabus

<p>Contract—Antenuptial Settlement—Consideration.—A written contract by which a man and woman agreed to intermarry at a future time, and which provided that, in consideration of their mutual promise, “the party of the first part (the man) grants and gives to the party of the second part” certain described bonds, all of which “he promises to deliver to her on or before the day of their marriage, to be and become her own absolute property,” is an ante-nuptial settlement which he cannot avoid by a refusal to fulfil his agreement to marry.</p>